Benny

“Shy is wrapped up in other people,
no weight on his back,
eyes closed,
waiting for another day.”
― Max Porter, Shy

“The reader and I thus mingled will constitute something living, that will not be me, because I will be dead, and will not be that person as they were before reading, because my story, added to their mind, will then become part of their thinking.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“And if falling in love was discovery, was letting yourself be discovered the equivalent to being loved?”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Inevitably, with memory comes pain.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men